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Korolev R-7 Rocket Leads The Field For Reliability Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 06, 2007 
The famed R-7 Semyorka rocket (known in the West by its NATO reporting name, SS-6 Sapwood), designed by the legendary Russian engineer Sergei Korolev, has proved so dependable and sought-after that even fifty years after its first launch, it continues to be used for many jobs. One will be to launch payloads from a facility now under construction at the Courou space center in French Guiana. Anatoly Perminov, head of Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos), has said that in 2006 Russia accounted for 47% of all launches carried out in the world. Adding to those the launches under the international Sea Launch program, which uses the Ukrainian-Russian Zenit rocket, the figure will climb to over 50%. The United States comes second, China and Japan share third place, and the European Union ranks fourth. |
US lawmakers accuses oil giants of climate 'doublespeak'
G7 to phase out coal-fired power plants by mid-2030s European satellite giant SES to buy US rival Intelsat Why energy storage is key to global renewable goals G7 agrees to phase out coal-fired power plants by mid-2030s In message to China, G7 urges others to help climate finance At least 143 killed in Pakistan's unusually heavy April rains The heatwave baking parts of Asia Plastic pollution talks move closer to world-first pact 'Have to be outside': Thai delivery riders swelter in heatwave 
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Look Ma, No Hands, No Humans
Huntsville AL (SPX) Mar 06, 2007It's the year 2020, and space has never been so busy. Picture this: In Earth orbit, a robotic maintenance ship skitters from one weather satellite to another, upgrading powerful optics that help meteorologists track dangerous storms. Four hundred thousand kilometers away, a cargo ferry arrives at the Moon. It spots an orbiting depot, makes its approach and mates flawlessly, offloading drill heads, solar panels and other supplies for a frontier outpost at the Moon's south pole. Atomic Clock Signals May Be Best Shared By Fiber-Optics 
Boulder CO (SPX) Mar 06, 2007Time and frequency information can be transferred between laboratories or to other users in several ways, often using the Global Positioning System (GPS). But today's best atomic clocks are so accurate-neither gaining nor losing one second in as long as 400 million years-that more stable methods are needed. The First 3-D Map Of The Universe 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 06, 2007By analyzing the COSMOS field, the largest field of galaxies ever observed with the Hubble space telescope, an international team of scientists led by researchers from the California Institute of Technology (United States) and researchers from the associated laboratories of the CNRS and the CEA, made the first three-dimensional map of dark matter in the Universe using gravitational lensing effects. |
Russia Set To Launch Satellites From Submarine
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 06, 2007Russia will launch foreign satellites into orbit from a submarine in 2007, the Navy commander said Monday. The Republic of South Africa reported in February that the Sumbandila satellite will be launched in May from a Russian submarine in the Barents Sea. "This year, Russia will conduct a series of satellite launches on behalf of foreign countries using ballistic missiles onboard a submarine," Vladimir Masorin said. Europe Moves To Safeguard Galileo Frequencies 
Paris (AFP) March 5, 2007The European Space Agency said on Monday it had awarded a contract to a British satellite firm to help safeguard frequencies allotted to the Galileo satellite navigation system. Surrey Satellite Technology has been awarded the contract for preliminary work for building a satellite to permanently secure Galileo's frequencies, the Paris-based ESA said in a press release. The Tip of the Iceberg 
Laurel MD (SPX) Mar 06, 2007The intensive phase of Jupiter encounter operations is winding down, but it's not yet over. In the first days of this week, we still have Radio Science Experiment (REX) and Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) calibrations using Jupiter system targets, and some imaging to better determine the shapes and photometric phase curves of Jupiter's satellites Elara and Himalia. |
LIGO And Virgo Join Forces In Search For Gravitational Waves
Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 06, 2007The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Virgo interferometric gravitational-wave detector of the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO) near Pisa, Italy, have agreed to join in a collaborative search for gravitational waves from sources in and far beyond our galaxy. Huygens Landing Site To Be Named After Hubert Curien 
Paris, France (ESA) Mar 06, 2007As of 14 March, an epic space mission and one of the founding fathers of the European space endeavour will be forever linked. ESA, the international Committee for Space Research (COSPAR) and NASA have decided to honour Professor Hubert Curien's contribution to European space by naming the Huygens landing site on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, after him. INSAT 4B Is Installed On Its Ariane 5 Launcher 
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Mar 06, 2007The Indian INSAT 4B satellite has been installed on its Ariane 5 launcher as preparations for Arianespace's upcoming heavy-lift mission move into their final phase. |
Homemade Suit For Chinese Spacewalk
Beijing (AFP) March 5, 2007China is on schedule to have a man walk in space for the first time next year after engineers finished the design of a home-grown suit for the mission, state press reported Monday. Plume Of Tvashtar Rises From Io 
Laurel MD (SPX) Mar 06, 2007This dramatic image of Io was taken by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on New Horizons at 11:04 Universal Time on February 28, 2007, just about 5 hours after the spacecraft's closest approach to Jupiter. The distance to Io was 2.5 million kilometers (1.5 million miles) and the image is centered at 85 degrees west longitude. At this distance, one LORRI pixel subtends 12 kilometers (7.4 miles) on Io. The First US Hall Thruster Is Operational In Space 
Natick MA (SPX) Mar 06, 2007Busek announces the historic launch and successful in-space operation of its BHT-200 Hall Effect Thruster. The Busek Thruster, part of the Microsatellite Propulsion Integration (MPI) Experiment, was integrated on the Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL) TacSat-2 satellite, under the direction of the DoD Space Test Program, which launched December 16, 2006 from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, VA. |
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